Ah ha. That's exactly what I meant. I had problems in the
UK with Dell
whereby they would courier the machine back to a central
location
whenever I had a problem and it would take anything from a
few days to
weeks to get it back. If it's a local company then at least
the
turnaround should be faster. Can I ask, do you have the
extended
warranty (Applecare?) and do you think it's worth it?
--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron Rustad"
<arustad ...> wrote:
>
> FYI: I bought my MBP from the apple website and had to
take it in for
> some warranty work. All the work is done locally at
Westworld
> Computers, you aren't required to send it back to
Shanghai (I assume
> that's what you mean by 'back-to-base').
>
> AR.
>
> On 5/24/06, Paul Umbers <paul.umbers...>
wrote:
> > Well, light the blue touchpaper and stand well
back seems to be the
> > motto of this thread. Seriously, thanks for all
the advice - most of
> > it pro-Mac or anti-Windows. Not surprising really,
I guess.
> >
> > I think I'll be keeping an eye open for the new
MacBooks when they
> > make it to somewhere local like Compusmart. I have
thought about
> > ordering one direct from Apple but I'm not sure
I'm that keen on the
> > back-to-base warranty or extended warranty from
Apple whereas I've
> > bought a couple of machines from Compusmart and
they seem to have a
> > decent support plan (http
://www.compusmart.com/SmartPlan/Default.aspx)
> > - dissenters, please feel free to comment.
> >
> > Like Alex & Paul R, I'm using Windows for
development at the moment
> > (Java & ROR) and don't really have too many
gripes with it. The Ruby
> > one-click installer makes for a simple
installation, ROR and other
> > gems can then be added via the gem command,
Eclipse with RadRails as
> > an IDE works just fine. OK, server support can be
an issue, but then
> > for development WebBrick is fine and I wouldn't
necessarily deploy a
> > production application to Windows unless I
absolutely had to, so no
> > issues there.
> >
> > For me, the switch to a Mac is primarily about a
better user
> > experience in general. I'm a bit fed up with the
effort I have to put
> > in to maintaining a Windows machine and get the
impression from most
> > people that the Mac is friendlier and more robust.
Plus, I'm really
> > more of a *nix sort of guy than Windows (I run
Linux under VMWare at
> > home for development when I can).
> >
> > I'll let you know what happens.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > --- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Alexey
Verkhovsky" <alex> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, Christian
Pekeler <christian>
wrote:
> > > > From http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html
> > > > > For example, I use Windows at work
for development and it's
> > > > > incredibly painful.
> > >
> > > Well, I used Windows for Rails development,
and so did Paul Rogers,
> > > AFAIK. It has its low points, but not all
THAT painful, really.
> > >
> > > I even know people who run Rails production
sites on Wintel servers
> > > (moreover, under IIS). It's what you do when
you already have 10 ASP
> > > apps in production. That is painful (still
not to the "incredibly"
> > > level though).
> > >
> > > Alex
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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